r/mildlyinfuriating • u/FATT_TOFU • 10h ago
My roommate admitted to using my mixing bowl to soak his feet while he had an ingrown toenail.
‘But he washed it after!’
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u/Hunter-Gatherer_ 9h ago
This is why I wouldn’t want roommates. I know it’s expensive to live but fuckin hell man! Fucking Neanderthal goes into the kitchen and uses an eating utensils on their god damn feet!?
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u/Bigjoosbox 8h ago
Haven’t you heard of a toe knife ?
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u/Unique_Cow3112 7h ago
Is that anything like a poop knife?
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u/Bigjoosbox 7h ago
Very similar.
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u/Hunter-Gatherer_ 8h ago
That’s the one used to get toe jam?
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u/Bigjoosbox 8h ago
Nah bro. That’s the ingrown toenail digger and cutter. Much worse. Blood is usually involved. Haven’t you watched “it’s always sunny”. Damn. I botched it!!!
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u/HungryPupcake 8h ago
Infamous poop scoop haunts my every waking moments if I were to ever have children
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u/old_vegetables 5h ago
I had to toss a hand-drying towel after it got crusty and disgusting after a week. I don’t know what my roommates were using it for. We all shared a bathroom but kept to ourselves, so I would’ve thought it’d be common sense that the small towel I put on our large towel rack was not for public use. This was just the beginning of what would become a very disgusting year. At the very least, I learned never to leave my stuff within reach of my filthy pig roommates
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u/Right-Phalange 5h ago
Not as bad as the person who was using the roommate's dishes to sanitize her diva cup.
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u/SageModeSpiritGun 7h ago
So, you can wash off raw chicken juice and salmonella, but you can't wash off essence of foot?
Y'all need help.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 5h ago
Don't get me wrong, I get the mental reservations of having utensils used for non-sanitary reasons but all these comments had me sharing your thoughts.
Yes roommates can be pigs. People can be pigs. But we are talking stainless steel bowls and utensils here. You guys get how germs work, right?
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u/VoodooDoII 2h ago
This is also why I haven't moved out.
At least with my family, I trust them not to be fucking pigs.
I don't feel comfortable with strangers.
If I'm doomed to live with people forever, I might as well stick with the people I'm already comfortable with.
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u/tol419 9h ago
Fuck, my daughter uses them for glitter projects. Glitter is my worst enemy. As long as they are stainless fuck it. Get a new roommate though. I can’t get a new daughter.
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u/Salt-Respect339 10h ago
It sounds gross, yes. But nothing a run through the dishwasher or good manual wash couldn't clean properly.
Strictly speaking science here and not feelings/perception though.
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u/clevozw08 7h ago
Seriously. None of you had a puke bucket that moonlighted at other things when growing up?
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u/colorful_withdrawl 7h ago
Our mixing bowl is the designated puke bucket 😅 and if more than one person is puking we use a stove pot. It all gets washed theres no problem to it
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u/MooseBoys 4h ago
fr, bunch of pansies here. my salad bowl doubles as the puke bowl for the kids when they’re sick. do people really expect someone to have a dedicated foot-soaking bowl?
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u/obiedge 9h ago
Yeah, same feeling as serving a meal out of a bedpan after putting it through the dishwasher.
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u/StragglingShadow 9h ago
I saw an experiment once where they offered people 20 dollars to eat a steak meal out of a bed pan that was brand new, sealed, and would be unsealed only after you accept. No one would do it because they perceived the bedpan as disgusting even though in reality it's just a sterile (until you open it) piece of plastic.
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u/stealthdawg 8h ago
Well there is also the perception of how much can you trust the thing to actually be new/unused.
They can tell you anything, and they can put anything in a sealed container.
I'd probably still do it given enough cues that it's legit new, but I get it.
Now, if I saw it come off the assembly line then I'd have no problem.
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u/StragglingShadow 7h ago
I mean technically, yes you can reseal things. but I would never assume someone resealed something as a "gotcha" to me. That seems like the way paranoid people think. And I'm pretty paranoid, so the fact this is a concern or thought people might have is troubling to me.
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u/mls1968 7h ago
Before social media, I’m 100% with you. Now??? Ow! My Balls!!
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u/StragglingShadow 7h ago
You know. Fair. I also never imagined in my wildest dreams I might need to care about if my ice cream had been licked, and yet. We had that brief period of time when a few people were doing that.
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u/Live_Angle4621 4h ago
If it was a case of zombie apocalypse and someone just suggested it because it was an option close by it would not be suspicious.
But otherwise the other options are just either social experiment or a prank. Even social experiments can contain lies (although should not have anything dangerous these days).
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u/Salt-Respect339 8h ago
Oh well, pee is normally pretty sterile. For 20 bucks claiming it's a clean pan, my student self would have tried to get in under lots of aliases.
But Biomedical Science over here, so what do I care. Lots of us ingested much worse in phase 1 clinical studies that we considered a "summer job".
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u/1amtheone 5h ago
I wouldn't eat a steak off of plastic either. A metal bedpan however, definitely.
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u/HookDragger 2h ago
They sure as fuck didn’t ask me.
Free meal? Yes. Oh wait. You’re going to pay ME to eat this great steak dinner out of a sealed bedpan.
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u/Salt-Respect339 9h ago
Yup, sounds gross. But is it really any worse than making e.g. hamburger patties (with potential e coli, worms and all) in the same thing and putting it through the dish washer after?
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u/FROOMLOOMS 8h ago
It's literally the same thing.
You put raw foods with deadly bacteria on stuff all the time and then put said stuff through the dishwasher and then eat off of it.
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u/TiKels 7h ago
I think OP is allowed to not want people to use his kitchen supplies for not kitchen related uses. I'm not sure I'd be quite so upset but to each their own
But also I frequently put raw meat in my mixing bowls, then wash them thoroughly, and use them for mixing salads. So like, unironically yes I put harmful bacteria on my eating surfaces in the way you described?
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u/SBCwarrior 5h ago
I do the same I just give it a good wash and I use it for whatever, fruit salad or meat.
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u/Hylian_ina_halfshell 8h ago
Piss and shit are different than a foot….
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u/wolftick 6h ago edited 6h ago
If it's been physically cleaned and sterilised then not really, other than psychologically.
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u/FluffMyGarfielf 7h ago
My family has always used our larger sauce pans as barf buckets when we're sick. we clean the absolute shit out of them afterwards and you would never be able to tell what they were used for. It never even crossed my mind that some people would find that so disgusting they wouldnt use them. People are weird.
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u/Salt-Respect339 7h ago edited 7h ago
I'm all with you, but I'm just a simple biomedical scientist, so what do I know better than average Joe these days anyways.
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u/Chance_Answer7984 4h ago
Also, it's a metal mixing bowl. Wash it and throw it in the oven at 350 for half an hour. Nothing's going to survive that.
It's super gross and time to find a new roommate, but the bowl is salvageable.
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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 5h ago
I used a pot a woman cleaned her diva cup in. I did wash it after she washed it and sanitize it after that before using. My bar for gross is very high.
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u/bambamslammer22 5h ago
lol, we’ve all had “that” Tupperware bowl that was a mixing bowl and a barf bowl
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u/cleverwall 10h ago
Sorry I giggled a tiny bit when I read this. Super gross. What did you say?
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u/FATT_TOFU 9h ago
Many words, mostly in French. (I’m not bilingual)
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u/Practical-Sea1736 9h ago
At least you discovered the truth because he left the bandage behind. My mind would wonder what else he’s done with your bowls, pyrex or pans.
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u/SuperAdaGirl 6h ago
Yes, think about all the other infected appendages that he’s been soaking in the other pans and bowls where the bandage didn’t fall off!
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u/grumpykruppy 8h ago
Just use Quebecois French.
You get to string together insults all day, most of them are quite vile in their effect, and the listener has to endure an extremely long tirade that ultimately all boils down to "I hate you and hope you die."
Also, a good number of those curses are church terminology, so you have plausible deniability.
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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs not PURPLE 9h ago
You make soup in this bowl and feed it to him. If he doesn't like soups, well too bad. It's soup time.
Also include that bandaid in it.
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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 9h ago
Doesn't have to be soup. Could marinade some chicken in that bowl, make a salad, mix some dough. Whatever they feel like. The important part is to place the band-aid in the meal, waiting to be discovered after their roommate takes a few bites.
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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs not PURPLE 9h ago
Yep. Make some dough? That's good actually! Porridge, kelloggs and milk, etc etc anything where the bandaid can be hidden well. Anything really. i said soup cuz it's the easiest to make, can be thick and also, there's a high chance the dude would get the bandaid in his mouth.
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u/cascadianpatriot 8h ago
You can wash it. Like after you do when you put raw meat and other things with bacteria in it.
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u/Lunar-Baboon 6h ago
Yeah as long as it’s washed, who cares lol OP would lose their mind if they saw most restaurant kitchens
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u/MercyPewPew 4h ago
Wait until they learn that like 99% of restaurant dishes have been dropped on the floor at some point and restaurant floors are literal science experiments
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u/2ByteTheDecker 7h ago
Yeah some fragile ass comments in this thread.
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u/captcraigaroo 6h ago
It's like people who have a separate towel for drying their ass. Idk what they do in the shower, but my ass is just as clean as my face when I get out. Sometimes cleaner
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u/MercyPewPew 4h ago
Holy shit someone finally said it. I am not washing twice as many towels just because I'm scared of my own butt germs
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u/cascadianpatriot 6h ago
You can tell there are a lot of people that have never worked in a restaurant or really cooked before.
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u/pintofendlesssummer 9h ago
Wait until you find out it's also been used as a puke bowl .
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u/Ralfton 8h ago
My parents still have the puke/popcorn bowl from my childhood. I'm 30 now.
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u/starwolf6410 5h ago
My first thought about this post was the puke/popcorn bowl. It’s a tradition that I have passed on to my own kids.
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u/NW7l2335 6h ago
Gross but the bowl is stainless steel so washing it will clean it effectively. The issue here is your roommate didn’t ask, hella disrespectful.
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u/OdinsGhost 5h ago
It’s a metal bowl. As long as he washes it, i really don’t see why this is an issue unless you wanted to use it at the same time. But then, I have kids and basically every large mixing bowl and spaghetti pot I own has been used as a puke bucket some time in the last decade. Not to mention all the times I’ve mixed up raw meet marinades and other “gross” things in them.
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u/Myrkana 5h ago
Why is that so bad? Wash it and use it. I used a bowl for toilet water while we changed the fill valve. I washed the bowl and it's back to being my salad bowl.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 8h ago edited 4h ago
So scrub it with soap and water?
Or if they’re not allowed to use your kitchen stuff, establish that boundary
Edit: Idk, seems like cultural differences? If your clean feet spend all day in socks and shoes and you wash them as convenient, how are they better/worse than hands? Except that hands are constantly touching things that strangers are touching?
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u/FinnBalur1 5h ago
Allowing someone to use their kitchen stuff typically implies the person use it for food-related activities within reason and not to soak their feet in it
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u/MercyPewPew 4h ago
Dawg it is a steel bowl. Once it's ran through the dishwasher it will be feet-bacteria clear
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u/Erebus_the_Last 7h ago
With it being uncleaned and the bandaid in there thats just ridiculousbehavior. But if he had actually washed it with soap and hot water I would've seen no issues. I mean seriously, most people don't happen to just have a random bowl that's not used for anything other than food
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u/Kephriturds 6h ago
Gross they didn't clean it, but if washing it doesn't clean it then what are we even doing here.
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u/CGPsaint 6h ago
I had a former roommate who soaked his feet in my large pot, even though there was a bucket in the closet specifically for soaking feet. I also caught him cutting up fruit on my cookie sheets instead of any of three cutting boards. Did I mention that stupid motherfucker had a Master’s Degree in engineering? He was one of the smarter fuckwits I had the pleasure of living with.
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u/goodtimesinchino 4h ago
It’s stainless steel. Wash that sucker with water and vinegar and lay it out for your homie. Poor bastard, ingrown toenails are the worst.
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u/FranzFerdivan 4h ago
You didn't grow up with a puke bowl that was also the mixing bowl for cookies, the popcorn bowl, the trick or treat candy bowl, did you?
Get over yourself, clean it, move on, it's fine.
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u/2ByteTheDecker 7h ago
Is it nasty? Sure.
Is 99% of this fucking thread over reacting? Unquestionably.
It's a stainless steel bowl, if you're that grossed out wash it with some bleach and hot water.
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u/BradyReas 5h ago
I mean it can’t be that much worse than the raw meat and stuff that is supposed to go in there. I would still be mad though lol
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u/BeefSupreme9191 4h ago
Technically, it could be cleaned and sanitized, so yes, mildly infuriating.
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u/Software_Is_Life 4h ago
The same bowl you put animals in that have been dead for a month?
Wash it, find a new roomate and move on.
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u/Eazyism 3h ago
One time my ex girlfriend used my ingrown toenail soaking bowl to soak potatoes in. We had 3 bowls of the same exact color and brand, and I would always leave my toe soaking bowl on a certain spot on the counter. It was only till after dinner I noticed there wasn’t two dirty red bowls. The potatoes tasted great
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u/alldemboats 2h ago
meanwhile growing up my family used the same bowl for popcorn, salad, and throwing up…
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u/cc-moo-cow 8h ago
Who knows what else of yours he’s used for disgusting reasons.
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u/Ok_Intern4709 6h ago
You would die knowing what my mixing bowl has been through as a large family with young kids
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u/Zealousideal_Novel68 6h ago
No different to me than mom's giving their kids the big salad bowl as the barf bowl. Nasteh
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u/Eollica 6h ago
Honest to god… is this stainless steel? No joke: you can probably contact a medical sterilization service and have it cleaned. Surgically cleaned. No idea of the cost tho. Make him pay. Or just… make him wear as a helmet and bang spoons on it. Then make him buy a new one. Looks expensive
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u/kmanzilla 5h ago
If people have the popcorn/vomit bowl then why can't you have the foot/mixing bowl? /s
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u/Alive-Carrot107 4h ago
My boyfriend did this with my popcorn bowl. I was pissed. This just opened a 5 year old wound!
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u/ShotProof3254 4h ago
I mean I get that it's kind of gross to think about, but technically this is easily cleaned by a good scrub and then sanitizing in the dishwasher.
It's whatever, at least they told you.
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u/JaegerDonuts 3h ago
How unhygienic 🤮 OP get a new bowl and keep your things locked up so no one else can use them.
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u/Mikeologyy 3h ago
Y’know, the lip on the rim of a toilet bowl is pretty hard to clean unless you have a well-shaped toilet brush, but in a pinch, your roommate’s tooth brush would fit perfectly.
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u/SneakyTurtle402 3h ago
Bit gross and not happy that they didn’t ask but why are a bunch of people saying to get rid of the bowl? Just wash it thoroughly???
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u/Chrispy101010 3h ago
If it makes you feel any better, he's probably washed his cum rags with your towels at some point too
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u/Cidsongs 3h ago
It's stainless steel. I don't know why that would be gross more than a raw egg or raw animal meat or milk or jello..., which is basically from all kinds of dead parts of animals....but yeah... it sounds bad. I wouldn't even want to eat food off where my own feet soaked.
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u/Last-Performance-435 3h ago
That's honestly fine.
Like, almost what it's for.
Wash and sterilise it again to be sure and you're good to go. They should have told you but honestly not that big a deal.
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u/Crimson_Scare_Crow 3h ago
Tell him you used his toothbrush to clean the toilet bowl but that he shouldn’t worry cause you washed it after.
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u/Few-Emergency5971 3h ago
I mean it's really not that big of a deal if it gets a good wash? Like I'd make him wash it, but I mean really now...it's not going to ruin the damn bowl...
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u/burningtowns 2h ago
That’s their mixing bowl now. Also tell him that buckets are only like $10 at Walmart.
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u/HookDragger 2h ago
It’s stainless steel…. Give a good soap-water scrub down and you good.
If you’re really worried, toss it in the oven to sanitize it with heat.
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u/stoneyyay 1h ago
Do you drink water?
Did you know that every drop of water has passed through someone or something's kidneys before reaching your lips?
Did you know fish fuck it water?
Did you know when you shit, it ends up in the water, someone else drinks? By that logic, YOURE drinking shit water....
Excuse me. I need some whiskey.
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u/HerGracefulness28 1h ago
If he washed it, it wouldn't have the fucking bandaid in the bowl now would it?
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u/Due-Explanation1959 1h ago
So? It’s your fault if you don’t wash it with detergent properly BEFORE using it. Detergent kills all bacteria.
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u/6_prine 10h ago
No that’s 100% infuriating.
I suggest you gift him the bowl. At a very high speed. Right in the direction of the ingrown toenail.